Somewhere between a 2am drive back from a gig and a 4am alarm for a work shift, Indecision became a real band. Not in the official sense — they formed in Bristol in November 2024, that part happened fast — but in the way that actually counts, where strangers start handing you notebooks and asking you to write down your own lyrics in them. That shift, from playing to nobody to playing to people who’ve memorised your words, happened inside a single year.
“30 Stories High” is the clearest evidence yet of where Indecision have landed.
Early 00s emo filtered through chunky distorted bass and fry screams, sitting in the territory of Deftones, Box Car Racer, Finch — but frontman Ben Parsons is specific about what they’re going for: “It’s less of ‘Oh I’ve heard bands like this before’ but more of ‘Oh I’ve never heard a band do it like this before’.”
The track deals with losing someone close, the bitterness that doesn’t resolve cleanly, and it hits with the kind of bluntness that comes from a band still close enough to their influences to feel them properly.
It wasn’t always this sound. Indecision — Parsons, guitarist Joel, bassist Alex, and Jacob — started out leaning indie before realising that wasn’t where their instincts actually lived.
“It wasn’t until we wrote the riff for ‘Loud and Clear’ that we realised the emo/nostalgic route is way more authentic for us,” Parsons says.
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“That song was a gateway into the music and genre that we have now become.” The bass player change sharpened things further. Alex came in and the band’s trajectory visibly shifted — Parsons is direct about it: “He is the glue to Indecision. It is no coincidence that Indecision’s trajectory increased significantly since Alex joined.”
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The older end of their audience hears the music and gets pulled back to being teenagers. The younger end hears something that sounds familiar but hasn’t quite been done this way.
That double pull is difficult to manufacture deliberately, and Indecision seem aware that they stumbled into it through writing honestly rather than targeting it. What they did target, consciously, is the set curation — making sure the music lands across demographics, not just at the niche end of the room.
The work ethic behind all of it is fairly extreme by any standard. Parsons and Joel both work 4am shifts, structured specifically so the band never has a scheduling conflict.
The downside is getting back from a gig at 2am, sleeping for an hour, and getting up again. “Our attitude towards a lot of different opportunities is a very ‘fuck it’ type of outlook,” Parsons says.
“What do we have to lose?” In fourteen months that approach has produced a debut EP in “Vol. 1” that hit 2.5k streams in under a week, BBC Introducing support from James Threlfall — who called it “high-octane alt-rock” — sold-out Bristol headlines, a near-sold-out show at London’s The George Tavern, and debuts in Wales, Brighton, and Liverpool.
Support slots with Daistarr, Lemondaze, and Sterling Press. A HotVox set for Warchild UK. Merch and logo work from Getarealjobkid, whose back catalogue includes Green Day, Paramore, and My Chemical Romance. Local venues The Exchange and The Lanes gave them early room to develop; the band haven’t forgotten it.
“30 Stories High” is where “Vol. 1” pointed. “That was the song where we were like ‘Okay, this could actually be something,'” Parsons says. “The feeling of writing that song was unlike any other.”
He closes with something that doesn’t read like a press quote: “Things are only going up from here, fueled by our fans’ kind words and support from local venues, bands and promoters — we hope our love for you is evident in the songs we make. You keep us feeling alive.”
Indecision play Brighton on 18th March, London on 24th March, and Bristol on 15th April.
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